| Jason77 said: Sony making their money base on the sell of blu-ray disk and home entertainment system. PS3 is just a step stone. |
I just want to know why everyone thinks "Blu-Ray" is some sort of super money maker for Sony?
Of all costs associated with Blu-Ray players and discs, the licencing fees on most formats have never been that large of a portion of the total costs; and there are hundreds of companies who get a cut for this due to their involvement with the Blu-Ray consortium, or the technology that is licenced to produce the Blu-Ray format. On top of this, Sony and other companies have had fairly large expenses in order to make Blu-Ray as successful as it currently is ... The hundreds of millions of dollars that were paid in order to get studios to become Blu-Ray exclusive mainly came out of the pocket of a couple of companies (including Sony).
The reason companies like Sony push formats like Blu-Ray has nothing to do with the money they make (directly) from Blu-Ray. The reason they push it is because a new format provides a need for new hardware (like Televisions and surround sound systems), and encourages people to re-buy the same movies they already own ...
